Just a handful of New Arrivals today as we head fully into the holiday season. Let us know what we missed in the comments.
Guerilla Toss, Gay Disco: Listening to Guerilla Toss involves dancing your ass off and bleeding from the ears, says Douglas Wolk:
A quintet from Boston's punk rock underground, Guerilla Toss belongs to the odd, persistent strain of brutally dissonant groove bands: the Contortions, the Big Boys, Dog Faced Hermans, Melt-Banana. Their take on… more »

The short line on Cabinet of Curiosities is that it feels like a forgotten treasure of the psychedelic '60s, its swirl of strings, acid-eating melodies and dreamy, mirage-like harmonies cut from the same dosed tab as Strawberry Alarm Clock, Syd Barrett and the Zombies. But to pin Gardner as merely retro is to short-sell him. Cabinet's craftsmanship is astonishing, its rich chiaroscuro arrangements all meticulously designed and implemented. He's a weird wizard of song working… more »